One comment on “Can the hyperbaric therapy be used to treat psoriasis?”

Dear Fabio,
I’m really sorry that your daughter is affected by such an annoying disease.

Psoriasis is a recurrent chronic inflammatory disease and a lot of factors can delineate its pathogenesis, such as autoimmune, genetic and environmental factors (for instance, in your case, a pharyngeal infection caused by Streptococcus).

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can substantially reduce damages due to chronic inflammation because it reduces proinflammatory cytokines, leukocyte diapedesis and it modifies the prostaglandins balance (all elements involved in the immune response regulation).

Unfortunately, hyperbaric therapy for the psoriasis treatment is not refunded by the Italian National Health System and there are no scientific recommendations on it.
However, I can tell you that patients affected by psoriasis who underwent hyperbaric chamber for other diseases showed a discrete improvement.

Were you interested in learning more about the topic, I kindly invite you to contact us at the +39 0544 500152.

Best regards,
Dr. Claudia Rastelli,
Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ferrara. Order of Physicians of Rimini n. 2074.